From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2015 09:38:54 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] cli/count: add --output=modifications
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Re: [PATCH 3/5] cli/count: add --output=modifications
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+From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
+To: Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
+Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] cli/count: add --output=modifications
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+Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi> writes:
+
+
+> $ notmuch metadata uuid
+> $ notmuch metadata lastmod
+> $ notmuch metadata uuid lastmod
+> $ notmuch metadata lastmod uuid 
+>
+> Now we can bikeshed whether this is good idea --
+
+it seems OK. We will have some set of 'fake' metadata keys that are not
+actually stored in xapian metadata. Perversely this includes both
+lastmod and uuid
+
+> and what to do (and when)
+> if unknown key is used in request...
+
+Error out, I'd say, but if it's not one of our fake metadata items we
+can in general just ask xapian for that value of that metadata, and
+complain if it doesn't exist.
+